Salah TS # 13

Salah (Child)  TS # 13: 

Date/Time: 15/4/15  17:50-18:50

Location: Leroy Collins Public Library

Topic/Skill: reading, words with the 'i' sound, world geography. 

Young's mother told me that her daughter got 100 on a test because of my help.  I was very pleased.

We started the session by reading another page of the Cinderella story.  As usual, I wrote a couple of stars and check marks (on the printed pages) after Young had finished reading, as recognition and a reward.  

We moved onto words that have and elongated 'i' sound.  For example, 'bike, kite, nine' etc and talked about how the 'i' sound can be made with the letter ‘y’ as in 'sky'.  We discussed how the sound can come in the middle of the word, or at the beginning (as with 'ice'), or the end of a word.  We went through several examples, as Young's mother said she was struggling with this a bit. 

Next we played a game about geography.  I found a very useful children's book in the library that labelled country names in an easy to read manner.  I started to read the name of the country and then asked what are the people from this country were known as and what language they spoke.  For example: Canada...Canadian and English, or Ireland....Irish, English.  I found this game was a good way to teach world languages/geography.